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Rare and Amazing WWI Colour Photographs

Let me know when you get some color photographs 😛

The pictures are amazing though. In your mind, you'd assume nearly 100 year old pictures to be B&W...it's strange seeing stuff from this era in color.
 
Turkish: Fuck me, hold tight. What's that?
Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
Turkish: No, Tommy. There's a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers?
Tommy: It's for protection.
Turkish: Protection from what? "Zee Germans"?
 
Too bad they all had to be posed.
Regardless simply amazing stuff.
WWI was just a hellish war. Its a shame it doesn't get the press (and respect) that it deserves.

Edit: "About 350,000 soliders on both sides died at Verdun over the course of that year." ... jeebus 1000 a day for a year. Screw that. Nothing but fodder and meat through a grinder.

 
Great photos. B&W images often have that other-worldly element about them. It can be nice, but it sometimes brings it home more to see it in color, which is important when we talk about war.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Shens, color wasn't invented until the 1950s. The world was black & white prior to that.
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You are full of SHT.

  1. The wizzard of OZ was released in 1938 and is not the fist colour film. Being released in '38 also means that production took a few years, so obviously the film was around before then.
  2. Google: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - He was a Russian Color Photograher at the turn of the last century.
  3. The first color photograph ever taken was shot in 1861 by James Clerk Maxwell

See his collection in the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Read about the Man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...ovich_Prokudin-Gorskii

This Color Photograh is from 1911, the same time as WWI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...rokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
 
Originally posted by: Homerboy
Too bad they all had to be posed.
Regardless simply amazing stuff.
WWI was just a hellish war. Its a shame it doesn't get the press (and respect) that it deserves.

Edit: "About 350,000 soliders on both sides died at Verdun over the course of that year." ... jeebus 1000 a day for a year. Screw that. Nothing but fodder and meat through a grinder.
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Correct, color stock at the time of WWI did not have enough light sensitivity to allow for fast shutter speeds. So exposures were often long and required subjects to remain steady for a period of time. Otherwise, the image would be blur or some subjects would not appear at all.
 
Originally posted by: Googer
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Shens, color wasn't invented until the 1950s. The world was black & white prior to that.
Click to expand...

You are full of SHT.

  1. The wizzard of OZ was released in 1938 and is not the fist colour film. Being released in '38 also means that production took a few years, so obviously the film was around before then.
  2. Google: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - He was a Russian Color Photograher at the turn of the last century.
  3. The first color photograph ever taken was shot in 1861 by James Clerk Maxwell

See his collection in the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Read about the Man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...ovich_Prokudin-Gorskii

This Color Photograh is from 1911, the same time as WWI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...rokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
Click to expand...
LOL
Your dum!
 
Originally posted by: Googer
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Shens, color wasn't invented until the 1950s. The world was black & white prior to that.
Click to expand...

You are full of SHT.

  1. The wizzard of OZ was released in 1938 and is not the fist colour film. Being released in '38 also means that production took a few years, so obviously the film was around before then.
  2. Google: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - He was a Russian Color Photograher at the turn of the last century.
  3. The first color photograph ever taken was shot in 1861 by James Clerk Maxwell

See his collection in the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Read about the Man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...ovich_Prokudin-Gorskii

This Color Photograh is from 1911, the same time as WWI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...rokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
Click to expand...

Who said anything about photography. I was talking about the world in general...:laugh:
 
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